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The Virgin and Child with a Bird

after 1500
16th century
190 x 166 mm (7.5 x 6.5 in.)

Cristofano Robetta, Italian, (1462–ca. 1535)

Object Type: print

Medium and Support: Engraving on laid paper

State: Second of two states

Print impression quality: Posthumous; shows wear; faint, especially at right side; some scratches

Edition: Only known impression in the United States

Marks: Signed in plate, lower center: “RBTA”

Marks: Watermark: Hand with flower (Briquet 11457)

Bibliography: Hind D.II-18 (vol. 1, p. 203, plate 283); Bartsch 12 (vol. 13, p. 400); Print Collector’s Quarterly vol. 10, no. 4, p. 387; Hind, Catalogue of Early Italian Engravings...in the British Museum; Text, p. 200, no. 8, Richard S. Field, ed., A Census of Fifteenth-century Prints in Public Collections of the United States and Canada (New Haven, CT: Print Council of America, 1995).

Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1952

Accession Number: 1952.D3.5

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Bible, mothers, New Testament, religions, religious art*

Bible
mothers
New Testament
religions
religious art - Use broadly for art depicting religious subjects or for art used in worship. [September 1993 descriptor added.]

Dimensions

plate Dimensions: 190 x 166 mm (7.5 x 6.5 in.)

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Cristofano Robetta, Italian, (1462–ca. 1535) . The Virgin and Child with a Bird, after 1500. Engraving on laid paper. Second of two states. plate : 190 x 166 mm (7.5 x 6.5 in.). DAC accession number 1952.D3.5. Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1952. Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (photo: M. Johnston) .

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